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Precedence(noun)

alt. of Precedency

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Precedence

Precedence is a solitaire card game which uses two decks of playing cards. It is a building game where the playing does not have to worry about a tableau or playing area. In the book 100 Solitaire Games by Sloane Lee and Gabriel Packard, it is known under the name Downing Street.
At the start of the game, a king is removed from the rest of the deck and placed on the first of eight foundations.
After that, the following cards must be placed on the next seven foundations: a queen, a jack, a 10, a 9, an 8, a 7, and a 6. These cards should be placed on their respective foundations in this order and a foundation should not start until the foundation to its immediate left does. So the fourth foundation for instance should not start unless the third one is already in place. Also, when one foundation is already been started, it can immediately be built down regardless of suit until it has thirteen cards. In this game, building is round-the-corner, i.e. a King can be placed over an ace, which can be placed over a deuce.

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Precedence

prē-sē′dens, n. the act of going before in time: priority: the state of being before in rank: the place of honour: the foremost place in ceremony—also Precē′dency.—adj.Precē′dent, going before in order of time: anterior.—n.Precedent(pres′ēdent), a past action which may serve as an example or rule in the future: a parallel case in the past: an established habit or custom.—adjs.Prec′edented, having a precedent: warranted by an example; Preceden′tial, of the nature of a precedent.—adv.Precē′dently.—adj.Precē′ding, going before in time, rank, &c.: antecedent: previous: former.—Order of precedence, the rules which fix the places of persons at a ceremony; Patent of precedence, a royal grant giving to certain barristers right of superior rank; Take precedence of, to have a right to a more honourable place. [Fr.,—L. præcedens, -entis, pr.p. of præcedĕre, to go before.]

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precedence

A designation assigned to a message by the originator to indicate to communications personnel the relative order of handling and to the addressee the order in which the message is to be noted. Examples of communication precedence from most immediate to least are flash, immediate, priority,